Mechano-Therapy: A Text-Book for Students.

This volume contains the author's experience, which extended over a number of years and includes both the teaching and the practice of mechanotherapy. The author's qualifications seem to be satisfactory. She places the emphasis on good posture as a factor in relieving the so-called medical or internal disorders in the treatment of diseases in women and in prenatal training. She endeavors to create an interest in the hygienic aspect of what she refers to as the neuromuscular economy. She defines mechanotherapy as treatment which may now be considered as virtually manual therapy, or as the healing of the body by means of manipulations or by massage and special exercises. Mechanotherapy employs the adaptation of passive manipulation and special exercises for the relief of conditions due to inflammation of various tissues, to trauma, to faulty weight bearing, and to the stases resulting from insufficient bodily activity. The author states that if